Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-04-30
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-sn Hour With Louisville Aurstotist.l
 At i o'clock Friday afternoon young lady, tail and slender and blonde emerged from private room af a jew elry-slore on Fourth avenue. Her bright face was drawn with grimaces and her mouth was down at the cor ners while her ripe-red lips were quiy- ering with pain. As she came out of the room N ith an elderly lady she cast an indignant look in the direction of the head salesman, who had left the same room but moment before with sharp pointed and slender steel iustru- meht in his hand. A close observer might have noticed a small crimson | spot on the lobe of the young lady's i left ear This same crimson spot, upon | further investigation, would have been | found to be drop of blood. The young lady was angry, however. and | smartinr with pain, and she didn't i finger any longer in the jewelry-Store than it required 10 walk to the door, which she slammed spitefully after her as she stepped out on the street, with another whitening look over her shoul- der at the head sale man.
 "What's the matter?' asked jour nalist, who had just stepped in to buy l S4.O00 diamond pin for his new spring scarf.
 q havo been piercing the young lady's ear." answered the salesman with mean smile, ''and she didn't like the operation. l succeeded in piercing one ear and then she got mad and left. I She'll be back in a day or two, howev- CT, to have tue other one pierced. 1 Young ladies must wear earrings, you know"
 Do you make a business of piercing ears?" asked the newspaper man.
 ''We do a great deal of it here for our customers. At least do great deal of it. l don't think anybody else in Louisville has ever undertaken the same sort of work. Within the last ten years l suppose I have pierced the ears of at least two thousand girls and young ladies. The operation is very simple one. All require is a sharp steel point and a stout cork. The lobe of the ear is placed on the cork and the steel point is pushed through in a twinkling. Then either bit of brass is left in the opening or tine earrings are put in immediately.
 '1s the operation painful?'
 ''As a rule it is not. That depends very much, however, upon the forma- ton of the lobe. Sometimes the To e is thin and tender. Sometimes it is fat and flabby, and often it is hard and 1 gristly. A lobe of the last mentioned sort is the hardest to pierce, and in such instances the greatest pain is caused As q rule, however, the oper- ation is accompanied only by twinge of pain, which $ gone as soon as the ! needle is withdrawn"
 Do the ears become iniamed after the operation?"
 ''Yes, but as . rule very slightly. Frequently they are made painfully sore by an uncomfortable desire that little girls have to scratch. Grown young ladies, however, generally obey our in structions, and within a week all trace of the incision is gone"
 At what age is the ear generally | pierced?"
 At from to 14 years. It is seldom that a girl gets to be more than II years old without having worn ear rings
 '.rhere are exceptions. however. Only yesterday married lady was in the store, admiring 8 pair of earrings. My husband would buy these for me, she said, if 1 had only had my ears pierced. l tried to persuade her tc submit to the operation immediately but she emphatically declined, and al most tainted when 1 brought out my steel point to show her how easily anC painlessly the operation could be per formed" |"
 Are you ever called to pierce tn, same ears more than onee?"
 Yes; quite frequently. Sometimes the brass is taken out too soon and ti, opening grows together again. Thi requires l second incision which is al ways more painful than the first. know one lady whose ears have beer pierced four times, and she sent for mt the other day to have tEem pierced again. The trouble in -her case lies il the fact that her ears grow so fiat tt her face that the setting of the earring can hardly be seen"
 Do you do all the earring piercing that is done in Louisville?"
 'l should say not. Many motlier pierce their daughters ears at hom, with an ordinary needle and keep tn incisioa open by inserting a bit o broom-straw. This is a barbaroGs sor , of custom, however. and is nearly al ; ways accompanied by excrueiatin: pain and inflammation. l have know , instances where the lobe of the ear ha been entirely lost by this rough oper., tion.n
 What do you charge for piercin: one pair of ears?"
 Not a cent. We do it gratuitousl, for our customers with the hope, 0 course. of selling pair of earrings"
 What is the professional title of GU who pierces ears?"
 He is called an auratotist. "-Louis rtite Commercial.
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